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As far as I know it's completely random.

Right now it's almost completely random (the only non-random factor is being conscious), but Toady plans to eventually implement things like reach (for instance, attacking a body part much higher than you is automatically an Impossible Strike) and response opportunities (the quintessential example is striking or jumping onto the head of a dragon as it tries to bite you).

Please note that when I said mega-beasts, I meant everthing that could classify as a mega-beast. Inculding titans, maybe demons.

The age of lonliness means you kill everything that is sentient. You cannot kill all the clowns because they literally have body counts in the millions.
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You can kill enough that they stop spawning. It might technically count as a bug, but you can do it.

On another note, are elven and dwarven settlements still just an unihabited point on the map with nothing?

Yes.

Are what the map calls fortresses any different from castles, or at those just two names for the same thing?

Quote from: nordak on November 12, 2010, 05:42:25 pm

go quest with another civ, it will improve your relations with all civs.

In 31.17 there are no other civs. No dwarves, elves, or even goblins that you can quest for. The new quest system, as well as the civ building system, hasn't been implemented, so it seems they just don't exist. Thus making all adventurers, whether elven or dwarven, the first mutation into their new species.

There are still multiple human civilizations.

Help i don't know what to do ;( do i have to retire? My char spine is heavily bruised it's the only wound i got, i killed tons of evil night beasts and this troll i killed ruined my spine i can no longer stand up i fall, what do i do can sleeping forever heal it?

Have you tried quick travel? If that doesn't work a crutch might.

I prefer to try and disable by attacking the legs (which slows them down a lot) or arms in use, though if I'll go for the head if square and not to hard to hit.

I usually wield around 8 shields. I just come up to enemies, wrestle their weapons out of their hands and kill them with the said weapons. It's much more effective than trying to kill them when they are armed. I sometimes wrestle shields out of their hands too so I get more shields with each bandit I get.

I keep forgetting, does more shields even make blocking more likely?

Or, start adventurers that raid other towns, then you will always have a quest because each group wants an eye for that previous eye, and maybe a few teeth too.

But doesn't everyone in a given civilization automatically stop talking to you once you steal from or attack any of them?